Our country is in the middle of a Senate impeachment trial. My generation has been thrown into chaos with gun violence and college debt. The inevitable destruction stemming from climate change is even...
At (extremely) long last, the 2020 Iowa caucuses are just 10 days away. I’ve been writing about the presidential-nomination race since the fall of 2017. I wrote about the campaign outlooks for more...
It’s still syllabus week, but that didn’t stop my geography professor from starting her lesson plan. In my Introduction to Sustainability class this week, we learned about the three E’s of sustainability:...
The “good guy with a gun” trope is one of the few that gets repeated to the point of redundancy because it’s actually true. A study published in 2018 by the Crime Prevention Research Center showed...
There are often moral panics about the most recent development about whatever’s popular. There’s TikTok now, and social media before that, and rock music before that. A decade ago, that panic was...
I frequently spend time around my department’s professors as a philosophy major at the University of Iowa. During office hours with UI Philosophy Visiting Assistant Professor Keith Harris, he relays...
At the most recent Democratic presidential-nomination debate, CNN took a break from the standard policy questions to ask Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a simple question: Why do you hate women?
It wasn’t...
I like a lot of things that other people love to hate: pineapple on pizza, Fox News, and most importantly — Nickelback.
To say Nickelback is the worst ignores the group’s greatest hits such as “Rockstar”...
The New York Times Editorial Board announced Sunday endorsement for the Democratic presidential nomination: nobody.
It didn’t actually do that; it endorsed Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts...
Whether you had a first semester that seemed to fly by with little complications or you had a rough time navigating the obstacles that come with college life, break is done and it’s time to start...
Tom Brands yelling was the start of the semester that changed my life.
In my second year as a sports reporter, I decided to suck it up and cover wrestling. I hated the sport in high school and chose to...
A few days ago, on the ninth dead week of my ninth and final semester at the University of Iowa, a student a few years younger than me asked if we could meet for coffee to talk about The Daily Iowan. She...
